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| Apr 9, 2024 | From ‘honey laundering’ to fake caviar: The seven types of food frauds | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
After enjoying what seemed to be a lovely meal, what if you were told the prawns you’d just eaten were injected with an unknown gel to make them look plumper and weigh more? Or the expensive wine you... |
| Mar 29, 2024 | Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals | Enlarge
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On Wednesday, the IEEE Computer Society announced to members that, after April 1, it would no longer accept papers that include a frequently used image of a 1972 Playboy model named Le... |
| Mar 5, 2024 | Digital Twins Are the Next Wave of Innovation, and Australia Needs to Move Quickly | Digital twins are a simple enough concept: They are the digital representation of any real product, system or process, and they’re used for simulation, monitoring and integration.
While the concept is simple, the value of the technology in ... |
| Feb 16, 2024 | With many Australian music festivals being cancelled, what does the future hold? | Source: Unsplash/ Tony Pham article-article-body
Regional touring festival Groovin’ The Moo has announced its cancellation only eight days after placing tickets on sale, citing low demand.
A mainstay of the summer festival calendar, this fo... |
| Jul 25, 2023 | AI Found to Be Biased Against Parents in the Workforce, New Research Shows | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 25 July 2023, 05:07 am
A new study by University of Melbourne researchers raises questions about AI's potential discriminatory tendencies towards parents in the workforce.
The study examines gender bias and its im... |
| May 24, 2023 | Looking for a Win on International Cooperation? Australia Can Lead on Combatting IUU Fishing | Australia has an opportunity to build on its strong diplomatic foundations on regional and international issues. Taking the lead to address illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing is one international public good Australia can provide ... |
| Nov 27, 2022 | Оксфордские учёные объяснили, почему кетчуп разбрызгивается из почти пустой бутылки | Исследователь Каллум Каттл из Оксфордского университета вместе со своим коллегой Крисом МакМинном провели серию экспериментов, чтобы определить силы, влияющие на разбрызгивание кетчупа из почти пустой бутылки и разработать теоретическую мод... |
| Aug 18, 2022 | Scientists hope to revive Tasmanian tiger from extinction | It's been nearly 100 years since the Tasmanian tiger's extinction — but the marsupial may live once again.
Earlier this year, scientists at The University of Melbourne established a research lab dedicated to developing technologies that cou... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | Sydney’s lockdown could become ‘permanent’ until widespread vaccination, economists warn, as fears of a recession emerge | Sydney’s lockdown may be here to stay. (Bai Xuefei, Xinhua via Getty Images)
The Greater Sydney lockdown looks like it will be extended beyond next week, as case numbers and community transmissions continue to climb.
With two other states a... |
| May 21, 2021 | Vaccines to Vaccinations: Towards collaboration in vaccine administration | Co-Author: Dr. Brad Crammond, Lead - Research & Insight, RMIT-Cisco Health Transformation Lab
At the beginning of 2020, as the world was only just learning of the existence of COVID-19, there existed no vaccine for anything that looked ... |
| Apr 30, 2021 | Indigenous businesses: The economic power, strength and diversity among an overlooked sector | Artist Rachael Sarra in a post on the Shameless podcast Instagram page. Source: @shamelesspodcast on Instagram.
Annually, Indigenous businesses in Australia bring in a total of at least $A4.9 billion — well over the revenue of the entirety ... |
| Mar 8, 2021 | Why we should be teaching all children about brilliant women in technology | On International Women’s Day, like many people, I will read books about female heroes like Ada Lovelace to my daughter. But I will also read about them to my son.
The Little People, Big Dreams books began life focusing on inspiring women in... |
| Mar 2, 2021 | Catching feelings: Why SMEs should respond to negative online reviews | A negative review or complaint online can lead to 'contagion' as other potential customers are put off. Source: Getty.
‘Do you think we should go to this new place for dinner tonight?’
‘Hmm, not sure let’s check what the online customer rev... |
| Feb 22, 2021 | Australia vs Facebook: The battle over advertising revenue, consumer data and the ‘attention economy’ | Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says Facebook’s news ban has shown the immense power of the “digital giants”. Source: Getty.
Facebook has blocked the sharing of all news content in Australia, not far behind Google’s threat of exit just last month... |
| Feb 12, 2021 | Is it time to ditch stamp duty? | Australia avoided a recession during the global financial crisis (GFC) due to a mixture of good luck and good policy.
Our proximity to Asia helped to moderate the economic downturn, while economic reforms implemented over the last few decad... |
| Feb 11, 2021 | How researchers are using data science to map wage theft | The underpayment of 7-Eleven workers brought wage theft to pubic attention. Source: Getty.
What started as a few underpayment cases revealed by the Australian media in 2015 has turned into an epidemic of ‘wage theft’.
Wage theft is the popu... |
| Feb 8, 2021 | Arguably, Bitcoin serves none of the functions ‘money’ does, so why is it so valuable? | Bitcoin has seen a tremendous surge in value since September 2020. Source: Getty.
It’s staggering to think that $100 invested in Apple in 2004 is worth $52,000 today. That’s a return of 44% per annum.
As eye-watering as these returns may be... |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Despite a surge in the number of Australians buying their first home, research shows this trend will be short term | Source: Getty.
In 2020, the global economic landscape was shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here in Australia, borders closed to international visitors, social-distancing measures were invoked and working-from-home became the norm.
But despi... |
| Jan 13, 2021 | How Australia’s Big Things helped shape our tourism industry, and our culture | The Big Banana in Coffs Harbour, NSW, in 2006. Source: Flickr/sixty4coupe.
As many Australians enjoy (relatively) COVID-normal summer holidays, many of us may be heading off on road trips, family breaks or beach holidays to take in the much... |
| Jan 11, 2021 | From a collaborative craft malting facility to renewable energy projects, Gippsland is getting regional development right | Gippsland’s rolling hills. Source: Getty.
A collaborative craft malting facility for brewers, distillers and bakers, and the development of new bio and geothermal renewable energy sources, are just a few of the new pilot projects about to g... |
| Jan 8, 2021 | A closer look at the investor-led push for climate action | At the start of 2020, CEO of Blackrock, Larry Fink, announced that the world’s largest asset manager would be putting sustainability at the heart of its investment portfolio.
As the pandemic hit, there was concern among some that momentum g... |
| Dec 7, 2020 | “Facing a reckoning”: Why is the insurance industry failing when we need it most? | Source: Unsplash/The Blowup. Insurance at a fair premium is never more valuable to society than during times of unprecedented crisis.
But, it is precisely under such abnormal circumstances that the very concept of insurance can come into qu... |
| Oct 30, 2020 | How policymakers are using ‘artificial societies’ to test COVID-19 responses | Computational social science incorporates policy changes into a model that represents societies and their behaviour. Source: Getty Images.
The year 2020 has been extraordinary. Never before has such a rapid confluence between science, socia... |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Pinduoduo’s latest aim: Sell $145 billion of farm produce in 2025 | Still working to turn a profit and shake off its fake-goods reputation, China’s e-commerce upstart Pinduoduo set itself another ambitious goal for 2025: surpass 1 trillion yuan or $145 billion annual gross merchandise volume of agricultural... |
| Aug 12, 2020 | COVID-19 has put casual work in the spotlight again — but research shows it still suits many Australians | For many years the labour movement has been warning us about the perils of insecure work.
The claim is that many Australian workers are subject to unpredictable and fluctuating pay, irregular and unpredictable working hours, inferior rights... |
| Jun 11, 2020 | Counting the cost: Australia’s most vulnerable people have been hardest hit by COVID-19 economic downturn, research shows | Source: Getty Images.
All Australians have, to some extent, been negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic but the economic effects haven’t been uniform, and some have been hit much worse than others.
People directly reliant on incomes f... |
| Jun 11, 2020 | A trust issue: Is the financial distress caused by COVID-19 putting beneficiaries’ interests at risk? | THE VIRGIN AUSTRALIA FLEET SITS IDLE AT AIRPORTS. When Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd went into voluntary administration towards the end of April — a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic — members of Virgin Australia’s Velocity Frequent Flyer p... |
| Apr 7, 2020 | Melbourne Uni's new AI and digital ethics centre already concerned about COVID-19 responses | The University of Melbourne has launched a new Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics (CAIDE) to tackle the ethical, policy and legal challenges posed by new technologies.
The centre is a joint exercise between the university... |
| Dec 5, 2019 | Police in Australia seized nearly R12 billion worth of meth hidden inside stereo speakers smuggled in from Thailand | The Australian Federal Police and the Australian Border Force charged three people on Thursday in relation to smuggling meth inside stereo speakers originating from Bangkok, Thailand.
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Three people have been charged ... |
| Mar 20, 2019 | Spinal simulation device for hands-on learning | Anyone who has ever tried to play a new instrument, rock a new dance move, or master a new sport knows the difficulty of learning a new motor skill – those movements of our muscles that help perform a specific action.
Simply watching someon... |
| Nov 12, 2018 | After you or after me? The academics giving driverless vehicles a human touch | By Dr Maria Vasardani, Professor Stephan Winter and Surabhi Gupta
When you’re about to cross a road and see an approaching car or bus, there’s usually a brief moment of interaction.
That short exchange lets you know whether it’s safe to cro... |
| Nov 1, 2018 | “The people behind the tech”: Why artificial intelligence discriminates | By Associate Professor Jeannie Paterson and Dr Yvette Maker
Advances in automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) mean we’re on the threshold of discoveries that could change human society irreversibly — for better or wo... |
| Dec 21, 2017 | Five challenges that will make or break the gig economy | By Andrew Trounson, University of Melbourne
For something so small, the gig economy makes a lot of noise.
These days, Uber drivers and food couriers in our cities are just an app-click away. It’s not surprising then that there’s widespread ... |
| Jan 3, 2017 | This Is the Best Way to Get Ketchup Out of the Bottle According to Science | All you want is a small dollop of ketchup on your fries. With no handy Heinz sachets in sight, a glass bottle it has to be. What ensues is ten minutes of shaking, tapping, and despair before an avalanche of tomato sauce descends and ruins y... |
| Sep 29, 2016 | Health pulls Medicare dataset after breach of doctor details | The Department of Health has removed a research dataset based on Medicare and PBS claims from its open data portal after a team of Melbourne researchers pointed out that practitioner details could be decrypted.
The government today advised ... |
| Feb 19, 2016 | The Future of Wearables Is Implanted | It’s interesting how many people recoil at the idea of implanted wearables. Cochlear implants have been around since the 1980’s, contraceptive implants since the late 1990’s and a plethora of implanted devices have either kept people alive ... |
| Making Australia’s most liveable city more inclusive | “One day, I’d love to not have to think about accessibility. Every building, event and public transport option in Melbourne would be wheelchair accessible and I could simply go about my day like everyone else, not having to plan my day arou... |
| Data isn't neutral and neither are decision algorithms | Researchers and journalists alike have taken great delight in recounting the new chant that student protests have used in the streets of the UK last month.
“F*** the algorithm, f*** the algorithm.”
The students were protesting against the a... |
| How data can help prevent overdiagnosis | Can knowing too much harm us? When it comes to medicine, in some cases, yes, absolutely.
Finding and treating diseases early saves lives and reduces health costs. It is why health systems have been increasingly undertaking proactive screeni... |
| Using tech to save wine from bushfire smoke | Southern Australia, California, central Chile, Greece and South Africa’s Western Cape are known for their wine – but all these areas have faced some of the worst bushfires on record in the last few years.
Bushfires can cause direct damage t... |
| Major Australian IoT providers fund COVID-19 discussion hub | Australia’s peak Internet of Things (IoT) industry body, IoT Alliance Australia (IoTAA), and Telstra, Optus and others have funded a COVID-19 discussion hub that examines the industry’s response to the crisis.
The site, published by IoT Hub... |
